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Scott G. Bruce (editor) is the editor of The Penguin Book of the Undead and the author of three books about the monks of the abbey of Cluny. He is a professor of history and the director of the Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He worked his way through college as a grave digger.
Now that I know what Hell is like, I shall take more pains to avoid it. This is an amazing collection. --Philip Pullman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Golden Compass Quite terrifying. --The New Yorker You will be [frightened] by The Penguin Book of Hell, in which writers from antiquity to the 20th century describe the eternal, infernal hereafter. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. --The Washington Post This fascinating collection kept me reading long after midnight, and the images it put in my head kept me up even longer. A deeply engaging read. --Amy Brady, Chicago Review of Books, The Best Horror Nonfiction Books of 2018 One of the prime motives of these texts is rage, rage against people occupying positions of exceptional trust and power who lie and cheat and trample on the most basic values and yet who escape the punishment they so manifestly deserve. History is an unending chronicle of such knaves, and it is a chronicle too of frustration and impotence, certainly among the mass of ordinary people but even among those who feel that they are stakeholders in the system. Hell is the last recourse of political impotence. You console yourself . . . by imagining that the loathsome characters you detest will meet their comeuppance in the afterlife. --Stephen Greenblatt, The New York Review of Books
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